Hungarian anamorphic artist Sandor Vamos creates incredible trick-of-the-eye, 3D drawings that seem to jump from their pages. With an integral understanding of angles and a knack for perspective, Vamos uses clever shading, line work, and perspectives to create his hand-drawn 3D optical illusions.

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Some really brilliant 3D drawings that jump of the page...in so many ways.

As a Visual Designer, you may not even realise it at first, but a few techniques that you come across when working on an interface, logo or illustration are in fact optical illusions!

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I have seen some of these illusions before but this post is different. Firstly, the illusions are dynamic - the parts move to show the illusion and then to show why it is an illusion. Secondly, the author explains the illusion from a design perspective. Very clever.

This animation and briefing on unconscious bias adapted by Professor Uta Frith DBE FBA FMedSci FRS introduce the key concepts and current academic research around unconscious bias with the aim of alerting Royal Society selection and appointment panel members to potential biases that can arise when making judgments or decisions.

One day in 1995, a large, heavy middle-aged man robbed two Pittsburgh banks in broad daylight. He didn’t wear a mask or any sort of disguise. And he smiled at surveillance cameras before walking out of each bank. Later that night, police arreste

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A good article explaining the Dunning-Kruger effect where people can sometimes be so incompetent that they don't know they are incompetent.

A new optical illusion has been discovered, and it’s really quite striking. The strange effect is called the ‘curvature blindness’ illusion, and it’s described in a new paper from psychologist Kohske Takahashi of Chukyo University, Japan. Here’s an example of the illusion: A series of wavy horizontal lines are shown. All of the lines have …

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This is one of those, "I can't believe it even though I can see it"-type illusions. Read the whole article and the comments.

Tactile illusions are illusions that affect the sense of touch. Some tactile illusions require active touch (e.g., movement of the fingers or hands), whereas others can be evoked passively (e.g., with external stimuli that press against the skin).

(via BrainCraft) Your brain does its best to piece together the world – but our senses are susceptible to being tricked. For centuries we thought that optical illusions only tricked our visual perception – now we know that the same illusions can trick the touch perception of those who are blind.

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Some old favourites here but the video host attempts to explain why they work which is a bonus.

Canadian artist Robert Gonsalves explores childlike stories of wonder through his surrealist paintings, capturing peeks of one's internal daydreams through dual scene optical illusions. The works express both the real and the imaginative, painting a space where one can explore beyond physical limits

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Gonsalves is a superb artist and his paintings are awesome. I have seen a lot of these before but it is worth having another look...to be inspired.

Other people are probably paying more attention to you than you think, but that doesn't mean they're judging you. By Juliet Hodges

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In research published recently in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Erica Boothby and her colleagues show how we have a tendency to believe that we are incredibly socially observant ourselves, while those around us are less so. These assumptions combine to create the illusion that we observe others more than they observe us.

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